This is the best political campaign of my lifetime. I don’t want to hear about Obama or anyone else. This is how you do it! This has to be the model!

“I’m not going to claim CEOs are that special. It’s just somebody has to tell others . . . ‘This is where we’re going.’ And AI is not particularly good at that yet.” AI can do everyone else’s job, but CEOs are just too important to automate. How convenient!

“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

Join @anikaganness.bsky.social next Wednesday, May 14th as she wraps up her postdoctoral fellowship with a talk on “The Past, Present, and Future of Child Welfare in Canada.” This event will be hosted in person at the @IRPP.org! Learn more and register for the event here: irpp.org/irpp-event/c...

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...

I'd rather have suicidal empathy than no heart at all. While the cruelty is the point for these ghouls, I still firmly believe there are more good people in the world than evil. I'm grateful to @charlieangus104.bsky.social for bringing light into these dark times & defending #ChildRights

In general we need to internalize the fact that bad faith actors never “have a point” because having a point isn’t the point.

There’s nothing better than some Elections 101 on an Easter morning right? Right?! In all seriousness, I hopped onto @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social’s show Just Asking to talk about our electoral system. Check it out, and go vote! #canadaelection #elxn45 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The Debates Commission is a disaster. #debate2025

Who thought this leader’s choice segment was a good idea? What are we doing here? #debate2025

How can he have a plan in the Middle East when he has no security clearance to get briefed? He just said that Muslims bring foreign conflicts and target Jewish communities I smell Islamophobia #cdnpoli #debate2025

These questions are terrible. This is worse than last night for sure. #budget2025

This horrifying debate on crime is a great indicator of the complete capture of the public safety file by the CPC and media collaborators. It’s a joke. #Debate2025

The moderator is not doing a good job. I prefer the approach last night. Cut the mics! #Debate2025

What is Blanchet talking about? Can we please try to be serious for a moment? #Debate2025

Absolutely. I’m already rolling my eyes.

As a follow-up to this post, if you'd like to give the article a read, please access it via this link. I have a limited amount of free copies for access if you are not able to access via an institution (but DM me and we can sort that out very quickly!): utppublishing.com/eprint/JG9AS...

It gets even worse once you learn about the history of these organizations. These are REFORM jails and prisons. Rikers was considered a “model penitentiary”! brooklynrail.org/2020/02/fiel...

I think it’s just a tipping point thing. When you have your first exposure to, say, 50 horrifying stories about cops and prisons, you think the system can be fixed. 500? You’re thinking it has to be seriously downsized. By the time you read about horror #50,000? Burn it down.

"You killed someone for nothing. We want justice now." Calls for justice after Abisay Cruz killed by the SPVM. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbDV...

Rest in power, Abisay Cruz, and all those killed by police officers here in Montreal and anywhere else. We can never accept the death of a human being as a justifiable consequence of policing; I remain disgusted with the SPVM, the BEI, and with the city.

Signe de l'état des médias à Montréal, qui ont assumé le rôle de sténographes des déclarations policières, le meilleur reportage sur le meurtre policier d'Abisay Cruz a été livré par Hockey30. hockey30.com/nouvelles/co...

we need to have an honest conversation about our drug policy for the first time ever

This is fucking abhorrent. It’s also how local policing works in the US too. “Gang databases” are basically racial profiling dragnets and there are literal toddlers in those datasets. This is another reason why abolition is so urgent www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cal...

The way to fight fascists is not to placate them. And yet, as @kwardvancouver.bsky.social is pointing out, we’re accepting Trump’s logic and the police state that comes with it. Somehow, even with existential crises staring us in the face, policing is the answer some crave. I’ll never understand it.

I'm proud to announce that my article "Policing The Uptown" has been released in the Journal of Canadian Studies @utpjournals.bsky.social - this is an adapted chapter from my upcoming monograph with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social & a piece I'm really proud of. Check it out!

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

Another terrific talk coming up on Friday in the Canadian Municipal Barometer online research workshop, featuring @erintolley.bsky.social and @tariajadi.bsky.social. Send me an email if you'd like to attend and I'll share the link.

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

it's your boy again, once again respectfully tapping the "support worker-owned, independent media" sign

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

For people who need villains to wear shirts saying “I’m the villain,” here you go.

Protest won’t be a dominant tactic this time&that’s good.No shade to previous iterations but it’s smart to change tactical repertoires over time.Variety of tactics is critical. Deep organizing(local community building&service based)is needed/happening now.That’s an improvement made from experience.

I spoke with the @thestar.com @raisapatel.bsky.social about cultural appropriation and the word "woke". It's a frustrating conversation to say the least. Given that we're now in "silly season" across the country, be ready for much more of this sloganeering: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

A few places where I’ll be… pls join me and share w friends #GotBloodToGive #AntiBlackHomophobia #BloodDonation

The creation of meaning about how to interpret events is a central site of political struggle The last two days have seen an attempt to launder a Nazi salute as anything but, to define the category of biological sex in anti-scientific much less humanitarian terms — and much more Don’t let them!

Thanks so much @eandreweditor.bsky.social! I’m thrilled to be working with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social on this project:

I honestly think we are experiencing the end of the internet as those of us born in the 20th c understand it. Smaller, siloed communities like discord servers and newsletters will persist, but the idea of the global public square is dead, as is “the information superhighway.” VCs killed it.

I'm pleased to announce that my dissertation received the 2024 Distinguished Dissertation Award from the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS) - for more on the award, check out this link: cags.ca/prizes/the-c...

...and (in what appears to be a banner day for my social media usage!) I got to chat a bit with CBC Montreal about what we might expect in our federal and provincial politics this year: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

I posted this on the other site (for my sins) and I'll repost here: There's no point in refuting these arguments on Bluesky (read any Black Studies scholar ever instead). What is notable is how quickly this deeply Canadian form of racism will reinscribe itself into policy. 1/

Since I'm hoping to keep Bluesky as a strictly professional experience, I wanted to share a few of the things I've been working on. First, I have a chapter (co-authored with Kristin Good) in this excellent volume that's just been released - check it out: utorontopress.com/978144263497...

I guess I'm doing this now.